The Ultimate Legacy It Girl
Almas Anfar Kathuria is a third-generation perfumer, entrepreneur, couture designer, sports franchise owner, pageant titleholder, mother, and philanthropist. She is also involved in the hospitality industry, including hotels and resorts. Her world moves between fragrance formulas, cricket ownership, couture fittings, hospitality, international stages, and a Pink Rolls-Royce. She calls the mix audacious, affectionate, and knockout.
She was raised in a conservative Muslim family where girls were not expected to work. Almas wanted independence from an early age and refused to accept that ambition belonged only to men. That instinct still drives her: when an industry looks closed, she walks in and claims her place.
“dreams never ever expire”
A Chapter That Sounded Like Me
Heritage gave Almas a family name to honour. She also wanted to write a chapter that sounded unmistakably like her: expressive, playful, and full of colour.
Pink became part of that authorship, from the way she dresses to the Pink Rolls-Royce people know her for. It is not a departure from the legacy she inherited; it is the visual signature of the woman carrying it forward.
Dreams Have No Gender
Almas believes women belong in every room where decisions are made. That conviction runs through her work in perfume, cricket, hospitality, couture, and pageantry. She wants girls to see a woman in the owner's box, mothers to return to the stage, and older women to choose a new dream without asking whether their time has passed.
Her message is direct: dreams have no gender, leadership has no boundaries, and no industry should be treated as exclusively male.
Pageantry that breaks barriers.
Almas has represented India on international stages and earned titles including Mrs. India Middle East 2024, Mrs. Tourism International 2024, Charity Queen, and Regent Smart City Queen Thailand. She loves the glamour, but she treats the crown as a platform rather than a finish line.
The idea became personal through women who had spent years placing themselves last: mothers, divorced women, and women in their fifties and sixties who believed they had missed their chance. Her own platform welcomes the women conventional competitions often overlook. She kept that door open despite criticism because she does not believe a woman's ambition should carry an expiry date.
Almas returned to international competition soon after the birth of her son and a Caesarean delivery. The experience made her belief in support systems practical, not abstract. She credits her husband, family, and household team for giving her the room to recover, travel, and compete.
The platform usually operates annually. Its current programme is paused amid regional instability, but the idea behind it remains unchanged: every woman should be able to buy the dress, wear the crown, take the stage, and choose herself again.
Compassion beyond business.
During a major crisis, Almas opened her hotel to people who needed somewhere safe to stay. For approximately three months, she provided accommodation without charge, along with food, milk, diapers, and other daily essentials. Around fifty people connected through Filipino community networks received support.
In a separate case, she housed a Filipino woman recovering from severe medical complications after hospital treatment and helped arrange her recovery and return journey. Almas rarely publicises this work. She helps privately because, in her words, success shines brightest while helping people.